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Claude Code

AI agent

by Anthropic

Coding agent that works on a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and a desktop app.

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What it does

• Agentic coding
• Code generation
• Code review

How it compares

• Codex

  The two labs' rival coding agents, in what the cited source calls a low-grade war between OpenAI and Anthropic over AI-coding tools; the quote names the companies, and these are the tools it is fought with.

  There is currently a low-grade war between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can release the most convenient and powerful AI-coding tools.

  News reporting · 25 Aug 2026
• GitHub Copilot

  Both AI coding tools measured at work by JetBrains' 2026 survey; Claude Code is now the most widely adopted, used twice as often as GitHub Copilot, the market's former long-standing leader.

  Claude Code has continued to grow at an unprecedented pace, becoming by far the most widely adopted AI coding tool at work. It is used twice as often as GitHub Copilot, a former long-standing leader of the market that brought AI-assisted coding into the spotlight in 2023.

  Research report · 25 Aug 2026
• Cursor

  Both AI coding tools in JetBrains' 2026 survey; Cursor and Claude Code share second place in workplace adoption at 18% of developers each, with Cursor's growth slowing.

  Cursor’s growth has slowed down, both in terms of awareness and adoption at work. It is still the second most well-known AI dev tool, with 69% of developers aware of it. However, in terms of adoption at work, it now shares second place with Claude Code, with both being used for work by 18% of developers worldwide.

  Research report · 25 Aug 2026
• Muse Code

  The move attempts to position Meta more competitively, and more affordably, with AI lab peers like OpenAI and its coding agent Codex, and Anthropic with Claude Code.

  News reporting · 19 Sep 2026
• GLM Coding Plan

  Zhipu AI has launched a new tool to help developers build autonomous coding assistants, heating up its rivalry with US firm Anthropic as the latter removes a hidden code tracking Chinese users of its Claude Code platform.

  News reporting · 19 Sep 2026

Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 2 Sep 2026

Verified 2026-09-02: URL 200, name and pricing route unchanged.

Sold within

Pricing page · 6 Sep 2026

Anthropic's own pricing page, read 2026-09-06. The Pro tier ($17/month with an annual subscription, $20 monthly) reads: 'Everything in Free, plus: More usage · Includes Claude Code · Includes Claude Cowork · Includes Claude Design · Includes Claude Science'. The word is the vendor's own: these ship inside the Claude plan rather than being bought separately.

Interfaces

Official documentation · 28 Sep 2026

Page gives a curl install for the CLI; native extensions for VS Code and JetBrains; a downloadable desktop app for macOS/Linux/Windows; iOS and Android apps; and an Add to Slack option.

Also from Anthropic

• Claude Agent SDK Developer tool

  Python and TypeScript library that runs the same agent loop, tools and context management that power Claude Code, so developers can embed the loop in their own process rather than calling the API directly.

• Claude API Model API

  Hosted API for the Claude models, billed per token.

• Claude Science Application

  Desktop application for scientific research that runs analyses, searches scientific databases and traces work from data wrangling through to publication.

• Claude Security Application

  Application that scans codebases for high-severity vulnerabilities, validates findings by adversarial verification and recommends patches for review, with a companion Claude Code plugin.

• Claude Cowork AI agent

  Agentic task app in which Claude works asynchronously across a user's files and tools toward a stated goal, checked in on from desktop, web or phone.

• Claude Managed Agents Agent platform

  Hosted API offering a pre-built configurable agent harness with managed sandboxes and persistent sessions for long-running asynchronous agent tasks, billed separately from token usage.

• Claude Application

  Assistant for chat, document analysis and coding, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps.

• Claude for Microsoft 365 Application

  Claude working inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook with context carried across the documents — preserving templates and house styles and showing every edit as tracked changes, highlighted cells or draft emails.

• Claude for Slack Application

  Claude tagged as @Claude inside Slack threads and channels: it reads thread context and replies in real time, analyses conversations, pulls data, drafts content, monitors channels, triages alerts and runs standing instructions without leaving Slack.

• Claude in Chrome AI agent

  Browser extension that lets Claude act inside Chrome on the user's behalf — reading pages, clicking, typing and filling forms to work through multi-step web tasks without approving each step, with the user keeping control of what it may do.

• Claude Design Application

  Lets users collaborate with Claude to create on-brand visual work (decks, prototypes, wireframes, marketing collateral) with design-system import and Claude Code integration via /design-sync.

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